“12 Car Mashup off Hwy 101, over.”
| Wednesday, October 18th, 2006 | --Sean |
Hack Days have become kind of a big deal within the engineer culture at Yahoo!, and no group exemplifies that more than Yahoo! Autos. They've actually squeezed the concept into their regular work schedule, holding their own Hack Days every 5 or 6 weeks and allocating up to 15% of their time to devote to creating and refining hacks. As a result, you can see a fantastic number of fun ideas coming to life on the Yahoo! Autos site.
So, here's another!
Yahoo! Autos allows you to find used cars based on proximity to your zip code, because you don't want to be wandering all over the state to pick up a car (especially if, you know, you need a car in the first place with which to wander). As long as you're returning results where location is a concern, why not put 'em on a map? That's exactly what the Autos team did, making it easy to spot nearby cars at a glance and get some basic information about them. Nice.
I typically recommend against mashing up your car, but it looks like Yahoo! Autos has figured out how to do it right.